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W.A.S.P.
Metropol
Pittsburgh, PA
9/62001
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True to his words from our
interview with Blackie Lawless earlier this year, Blackie certainly does
take care of his voice as evident by W.A.S.P.’s recent performance in
Pittsburgh. While contemporaries such as Vince Neil, Stephen Pearcy
and Ian Astbury must reply much more on their charisma these days in
concert, Lawless still sounds as strong as he did when “Animal” came out
over 17 years ago.
W.A.S.P.’s
set started out with a rather interesting medley of “Helldorado”, “The Electric
Circus” and “Chainsaw Charlie” which spans a wide section of their career.
Blackie’s demon motorcylce from hell doubled as a mike stand and was a widely
used prop throughout the show most notably on “My Tortured Eyes”.
Old
favorites like “L.O.V.E. Machine”, “Wild Child”, “Animal”, and “Sleeping in
the Fire” were prominent older songs in the set. With their latest CD
“Unholy Terror” being so strong, it was actually a shame to only have “Let
It Roar” as the other new song in the set. W.A.S.P. finished up with I
Wanna Be Somebody and the great singalong Blind In Texas. To W.A.S.P.’s
credit, the crowd loudly for the encore and it was not an obligatory amount
of applause for the band. The crowd was really into this show and W.A.S.P.
delivered an actual performance.
The
only problem with seeing W.A.S.P. in a club is that there are so many great
songs they could play, but never enough time available for a 2 hour set.
With the ferociousness of their set, stage presence and playing ability, I
do not think W.A.S.P. will be offered any opening positions on any summer
festival tours in the USA. This animal is still a mean man.
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